Gorden Tallis warns no Bronco's backliner is safe

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FORMER Brisbane great Gorden Tallis declared no backline player was safe at the Broncos with the arrival of a motivated Scott Prince to deliver a backline shake-up that can put the club back into premiership contention.

Halfback Prince will start pre-season training with the Broncos on Monday with the likes of ballplayers Peter Wallace, Corey Norman and Ben Hunt and fullback Josh Hoffman wary of the ramifications his presence can have on the starting side.

Tallis said it was too early to speculate what changes coach Anthony Griffin would make next season to squeeze former Titans halfback Prince into the 17-man squad, but he was happy with the message the recruitment sent to the team after they faded miserably at the end of 2012 to lose seven of their last eight games.

Despite Brisbane's poor form and six-game losing streak last season, a lack of depth in the halves meant Griffin was restricted in the changes he could make to his spine. Not any more.

"No one is safe and that is how you want it to be," said Tallis, a former teammate of Prince at the Broncos from 2001-2003.

"It is just more competition and that is all that it is.

"All positions, six, seven, one and even three, all of them are now uncertain.

"Who knows who is going to wear what numbers? Certainly it is a very strong, young roster."

The decision by the Broncos to snare Prince on a two-year deal continues to be felt around the NRL and the move proved popular with punters, who immediately backed Brisbane for the NRL premiership when news of the signing broke on Wednesday.

Tallis knows Prince will make the drive up the M1 from his Gold Coast home with added enthusiasm to prove he still has a place in the NRL.

The bitter divorce from the Titans has no doubt stung the premiership winner and Gold Coast coach John Cartwright's comments suggesting Prince's best days were behind him would provide motivation for the summer sweat ahead.

"Everybody has a point to prove every year, that is the NRL and what makes it the toughest competition," Tallis said.

"After what happened just down the road and being treated the way that he was, I suppose now Scott will certainly have some more motivation through the off-season.

"It is pretty murky, all the details. But I think in the end, the Broncos and Scott Prince are the real winners.

"You have got a club that is excited to have him and he is excited to be going there.

"The Broncos finished above the Titans last year and think they are going to be a better side with him while the Titans thought he was not good enough to get them where they want to be."

Meanwhile, the Titans continued the purge of their roster with centre Dominique Peyroux released to join the Warriors on a two-year deal and prop Brenton Lawrence off to join Manly for three years.